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Testing an Educational Program to Improve Goals of Care Conversations Between Patients and Their Care Teams

NCT07278739 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1020

Last updated 2026-04-16

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This clinical trial evaluates an educational program called Algorithm-Enabled Patients Activated in Cancer Care Through Teams (A-PACT) for reducing unplanned hospital visits and improving goals of care conversations with providers among patients with solid cancers. A-PACT is an educational program where lay health workers (educators) help patients talk with their health care team about issues that matter most to them (goals of care). During A-PACT sessions, patients receive assistance in formulating health care and end of life care preferences, assistance in completing advance directives, guidance on how to engage in these conversations with family members, friends, and clinical teams, and encouragement to discuss these topics with their clinical team. A-PACT may reduce unplanned hospital visits and improve goals of care communication with providers among patients with solid cancers.

Conditions

  • Malignant Solid Neoplasm

Interventions

OTHER

Best Practice

Receive usual care

OTHER

Educational Intervention

Receive A-PACT education

OTHER

Electronic Health Record Review

Ancillary studies

OTHER

Interview

Ancillary studies

OTHER

Questionnaire Administration

Ancillary studies

BEHAVIORAL

Telephone-Based Intervention

Receive A-PACT phone calls

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Cancer Institute (NCI)

    collaborator NIH

  • SWOG Cancer Research Network

    lead NETWORK

Principal Investigators

  • Ravi B Parikh · SWOG Cancer Research Network

  • Manali Patel, MPH MS FASCO · Stanford School of Medicine

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2026-05-03
Primary Completion
2032-01-01
Completion
2032-07-21

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